Burns Smith had been living in Manhattan c. Smith and his son, Burns Lyman Smith (1880-1941), spent lavishly to create this tall landmark, between $1.25 and $1.7 million. Syracuse architects Gaggin and Gaggin designed this tower for fellow Syracuse resident, Lyman Cornelius Smith (1850-1910), a manufacturer of Ithaca Gun Company firearms and L.C. Whitney-Steen Company served as the demolition company. The firm of Gaggin and Gaggin formed officially in 1902, and the stimulus for its creation may have been the completion of Smith Hall at Syracuse.Ī 1-story, brick building previously stood on the 2nd Avenue and Yesler Way site, which was demolished in 1911. Smith Hall at Syracuse University, erected between 19. Gaggin and Gaggin had worked with Lyman Cornelius Smith previously, designing for him L.C. The Smith Tower's form recalled other skyscrapers built in New York City during the same period, well-known to the architects Edwin Hall Gaggin and Thomas Walter Gaggin of Syracuse, NY. The tallest building standing before 1914 in the city was the Hoge Building, standing at 18 stories. This 42-story tower dwarfed anything built in Seattle up to that time.
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